Career Counseling

Career Planning

Why Career Counselor

Set Your Goal

Facing The Reality

Set Your House In Order

Road To Success

Power Of The Mind

Power Of Concentration

Improving The Will

What Is Intelligence

Improving The IQ

Personality

Initiative

Creativity

Time Management

Effective Learning

Improving Memory

Coping Examination Stress

Stress

Emotional Quotient

Spiritual Quotient

Career Fields

Career Path

Organisational Structure

Power of Concentration

No matter how long you sit with open eyes looking at the open book, hardly anything is registered in your brain unless you make meaning out of the text.

Concentration is the process of selecting certain inputs for inclusion in the focus of experience. Whenever an individual tries to focus his concentration on an object, idea or text the process of attention divides the field of his experience into a focus and a margin. While trying to concentrate, one ties to bring the information (e.g., a text) under focus of attention. While trying to focus your attention on relevant (text) material, you are filtering all other irrelevant, marginal and unwanted information to the margin. If you succeed in doing so you will definitely understand the (text or spoken) material and not complain about lack of concentration.

Many great persons are known for their power of concentration. While it is common for many students not to be able to concentrate, it is in their interest to develop their power of concentration.

When we read a thrilling novel or magazine of our interest, we are usually not troubled with the problem of concentration. At times, you don't even notice a person entering the room. What is important to you is to arouse and maintain interest in various subjects of your studies. Some subject/s would definitely not interest you but you have to remember and remind yourself about the goals you want to achieve.

Mudit, a student at undergraduate level wanted to be fully qualified and successful in his perspective career. He wanted the prestige, the security, and the satisfaction that his career would bring to him. This was his ambition, his supreme desire. Mudit resolved to begin studying for the series of examinations which would give him his heart's desire. During his intensive studies, there were times when he faltered a little in his resolve, and frequently there were evenings when his mind would wander from some of the textbooks. After consulting me about his problems, Mudit discovered that the secret of concentration lay in quickening his original desire, in re-kindling his interest.

When he found his attention to be wandering seriously, he would visualize himself as having gained his much desired qualifications. He would remind himself of the increased income it would bring and many exciting and worthwhile things he could do with that bigger salary and higher status. After this little excursion into a very possible future, Mudit found that he returned to his studies with great zeal and enthusiasm. This resolve to succeed thus strengthened and improved his concentration. You may find your own ways and techniques to improve the concentration. Nothing else could interest you so much as negotiating your present difficulty, and irrelevant thoughts will cease to obtrude.

Strong Will-power is a necessary condition, especially for academically oriented subjects. The person of weak will would have spent all the evening in day dreaming, without doing anything to make his dreams come true. How about you? You might say "that's what I lack-will-power ……. I just can't bring myself to act ……"

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